Conversione, apostasia e martirio: il caso di Sol Hatchuel

Autore: Sharon Vance
In: Genesis. VI/2, 2007
doi:10.1400/106043
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Abstract

Conversion, Apostasy and Martyrdom: the Case of Sol Hatchuel
This article discusses the concept of conversion, apostasy and martyrdom in the story of Sol Hatchuel, a young Jewish girl who was executed in Fez in 1834 after neighbours testified that she had converted to Islam. Texts recounting Sol’s story in Judeo-Arabic, Hebrew, Judeo-Spanish, Spanish and French are compared. Each set of texts, while recounting the same historical events, tells the story according to the literary, religious and political perspectives of the different authors and audiences. Gender discourse, religious polemics, and, in the case of the European texts, colonial discourse are incorporated in the retelling of Sol¹s story. In addition, this story shows that for certain groups conversion, apostasy and martyrdom are often interconnected.